Pop-up picture house
A month of feel-good movies plus delicious food by Tom Kerridge is on offer at Marlow’s Pop-Up Picture House this December. Films include When Harry Met Sally (2 Dec), Casablanca (10 Dec), It’s a Wonderful Life (24 Dec), Grease (31 Dec), with accompanying meals of chicken coconut curry and shepherd’s pie, beef stew and dumplings and pulled pork with dirty rice.
Pop-Up Picture House, The Old Town Hall, Marlow, Bucks, 1 Dec – 1 Jan, tickets on sale 8 Nov, from £20 pp. Visit picture-house.co.uk
Made.com homeware
The on-line design brand made.com has launched a range of home accessories, plus two great dinnerware designs: Noah (illus), organic asymmetric plates and bowls; and chic minimalist Kyoto in two-tone white glaze
Noah and Kyoto tableware £69 x 12 pieces, from made.com
Monty’s Deli
Last chance to help crowd-fund this terrific Jewish deli in Bermondsey. Monty’s began life in 2012 as a market stall. Now they’ve found a restaurant space in the form of an old bakery and need £50,000 to build a kitchen. Pledge a fiver (or more) by 12 Nov, so that they can continue to produce wonderful salt beef sandwiches, pastrami, rye bread, sauerkraut, latkes…
Monty’s Deli, 76 Druid Street, London SE1, www.montys–deli.com, www.kickstarter.com/projects/1061292574/montys-deli-a-real-jewish-deli
Five of the best… Non-alcoholic drinks
Sour Plum Iced Tea
Rich cordial of dried Wu Mei plums, liquorice root and osmanthus flowers. Have over ice or add hot water for a spicy mulled wine alternative. Yumcha Sour Plum, £3.95 x 20 servings, available yumchadrinks.co.uk, delis, Amazon
Jimmy’s Iced Coffee
Limited edition Ginger-flavoured, spiced iced coffee, £1.59/330ml available Waitrose, Selfridges, Tesco www.jimmysicedcoffee.com
Feel Good Drinks
Glass-bottled, natural juice and water drinks in 6 seasonal flavours inc; fizzy Orange, Passion Fruit & Water, Cranberry, Lime & Water; and still Cranberry, Pomegranate & Water, and Lemon, Elderflower & Water, from £1.25/750ml, available Asda or visit feelgooddrinks.co.uk
T Plus Drinks
A range of 4 vitamin-infused hot drinks (t+boost, t+detox etc) featuring Sri Lankan green tea, yerba mate and ginseng and raspberry, milk thistle, Echinacea, blueberry, blackcurrant and dandelion root. T-Plus Drinks, £3.69 x 15 teabags, available Ocado, Wholefoods or tplusdrinks.com
Pure Tisanes
Fresh fruits, herbs and spices, blended by hand and snap-frozen to produce teas that taste extraordinarily fresh. Seven flavours, inc lemon balm and cardamom, rosemary and star anise, lemon and ginger and cucumber and mint (10 teabags in each freezer-ready pouch) Pure tisanes £6.80 x 10 teabags, puretisanes.com
